Black Mesa: Source is out, get it from the games.on.net file mirror now
By Tim Colwill on September 15, 2012 at 9:35 am
You may have noticed that we’re having a few issues with site stability over the last six hours or so. Why? Because our file library is being hammered: over 22,000 people have now downloaded the full game client of Black Mesa: Source straight off our red-hot servers.
That’s over 67 terabytes of information so far. And it’s still going. Why not be a part of it and download it for yourself? We also have an automatic installer to help you extract the 7-zip.
Remember that as always, you’ll need to be signed up and logged in to access our downloads. Registration is free and all file downloads are quota-free to members of the iiNet group, so get cracking!
Review: Black Mesa: Source
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Damn fine remake from what I’ve played so far!
Stay tuned for a review in the next few days!
Getting a 404 from the mirror you provided
Whenever I click download I get taken back to the list of downloads!
Excellent! unmetered goodness :3
For those of you who kept getting sent back to the downloads list just keep trying it took me like 6-7trys before i got to the
“Your download link is ready
Click here to download your file.” page
Id assume maybe heavy server load? or something i dunno.
Cracked 100Tb now lol
Got it working now. Awesome.
meevinman,
Please make sure you’re registered and logged into the forum/community before downloading files.
Does this require HL2 to run or is it stand alone?
Will GoN upload the soundtrack as well?
http://www.blackmesasource.com/soundtrack.html
A mate of mine grabbed it before, I just tried, 404 Not Found.
Did Games.on.net remove the file due to the site being hammered?
Not sure why you went back to requiring registration to download files. It was much better without that requirement.
No, the file is still there. I’ve just been able to get it downloading. Please try again and make sure you’re logged in :)
We never removed it once we added it, as far as I’m aware. And you’re already a registered member anyway, so… not sure how it affects you?
Tim Colwill,
I think palzer0′s referring to the fact that GON didn’t require registration to download files until sometime last year I believe. Heck it’s the only reason why I’m registered here (except for the very occcasional comment, like this one). If the registration requirement didn’t exist (like it used to) I’d never post at all.
The new user registration spam can’t help the server though can it?
look! our great website has 22 thousand users! *and only a handful of active ones*
I get why you do it but I can’t help but feel its unnecessary..
Bam.
my download starts but keeps stopping claiming ‘unknown network error’
using chrome.
do download managers such as getright play nicely with sites which require a login?
I don’t understand this “Bam” without context. I get enough stupid status updates like this on Facebook. :)
I’m gonna assume GON has registration simply because it reduces overall bandwidth as not everyone is going to bother registering just to download files.
v4moose,
Google “free download manager”. It’s better than GetRight and completely free (no spyware/adware). As for download manager, I’ve found that the download links on GON expire after a couple of hours, which means if you have to resume a download, if the link has already expired it won’t easily resume. Easiest solution is to retry the download (from your browser), right-click and grab the unique URL and replace whatever the download manager is using with the new URL. Work for me, again when using FDM.
But as for BM, I’d just get a torrent since it looks like it’ll be more reliable anyway.
nooooo way, its to raise site traffic and hopefully get people to hang around and become “regulars”
Bah. When Tim Colwill wrote that rediculous Dark Souls article, trying to convince people that buying a sub-standard PC port is the right thing to do, I couldn’t believe it. I read posts from other game sites/forums (mostly American) make fun of GON and Tim for such a position, to the point where they see this place as a joke. Now I’m not prepared to go that far, but put it this way – I don’t come here for the articles. I come here for the files, and occasionally the game server listing. But even after the web site redesign they STILL haven’t fixed the lack of sorting files into categories, which makes me sad.
But hey, I don’t finance the site. I should be grateful it even exists, and I am.
Nearly 40k now, that’s about 122TB!
I’m downloading now quota free :D:D:D
This will tide me over until Borderlands 2 is out
Your face is unnecessary!
You do realise The Conwill is the better man in that story, not the Americans…
So what is annoying is that you have to register then get the download at full speed, yet people are happy with other sites that allow you to download instantly at throttled speeds?
Oh the effort to fill out a form… it’s all too much!
As a long time user of FDM i’d strongly recommend using JDownloader instead, its just bloody amazing at what it does and FDM really can’t hold a candle to it.
As for the registration, some of these forms require a first AND last name and as a busy house wife this can really impact my day to day life.
I am really interested to see some links to this.
my initial comment is that if these people think that a whole site is a joke because of one persons opinion on a single subject, then they are the idiots in this situation. but I am curious to see what the details are.
also, that “bam” was to demonstrate that what you have done is exactly what GON means to happen. people sign up for the files, and end up contributing to the site.
they should have to sign up to download files. hosting servers sure as shit isn’t free, and getting more numbers to show to companies interested in advertising is great.
I’ll give you one:
http://www.bluesnews.com/s/134461/op-ed
Quoted from Creston:
“As for games.on.net, they always write troll articles like this. It’s apparently the only way they can get traffic. I think Blue links to their shit just to get a rise out of us if we’ve been too quiet for a few days.”
Anyways, this is very much a sidetrack to the main topic – BM:Source is out. Yay!
actually I think my face, yours, and everyone else’s are all very necessary otherwise they wouldn’t want people to register to download files ;)
What a shit house website!
That website makes my eyes bleed, how could you possible read that… Or is that the joke?
Seems like one of the oldest gaming news sites in existance has escaped some of you lot. As for its appearance, well… people complain about reddit looking like crap, but surely you’re old enough to know that content is far more important than looks, yes?
Also, last post here. Forever… :)
Can’t wait to try this
You won’t be missed.
Ah yes, the old come to a site and slag off its entire community/contents because of the odd article and then expect a positive reaction routine. I see it worked a charm.
skitzor used INSIGHTFUL AND ACCURATE POST.
It’s SUPER EFFECTIVE.
The internet is no place for reason and logic.
Why is nobody talking about the game? This is weird.
ok whats up?? downloaded this twice off games.on.net and has corrupted files, yes im using the installer too…..
downloaded it off ausgamers aswell and its corrupted too??
anyone know whats up or am i only one having problems??
chunkalicious, Have you tried changing browser to download it? What is that web browser.
mozilla firefox, fully up to date aswell, never had problem before with 7 zip
chunkalicious,
Not that I think this will help you much but I’m using Firefox, fully updated as well and I was able to download this. Took about 30min at 6am this morning which for me is amazing for a 3Gb file… never had such good speeds.
I’ve got the usual Adblock Plus and Noscript addons but also Flashgot. Running WinXP SP3.
Hmmm, surprised by the long load times between areas. Not sure if it’s just me or if it’s the nature of the programming/source engine (I haven’t played a Source Engine game before)… still, it’s nice to essentially get Half Life for free and to finally see why this game made the huge impact on gaming that it did.
I only scooted through the comments… but there doesn’t seem to be anything written about how freaking good this remake is?
I played it for about 45 minutes and I think there was some differences from the original (but might just be my memory) but I remember so little that’s its kind of like playing it again for the first time and it look so pretty. More long term playing will be needed to see if I get caught in any technical difficulties but so far it’s stellar.
Also I’ve got no problem with having to sign in to download files but I wish the site made it obvious that that’s what you had to do. I came to download a file a while back and everytime I clicked download it just took me to the home page again and didn’t tell me that I had to sign in or nothing. and in IE it just takes you to an error page. Please get on this GON so other like me don’t get left in the dark as to why the download isn’t working.
Yeah there are most certainly differences to the original. I hit one point and went “wait, I’ve reached here, there are bad guys and I don’t even have my crowbar yet? What gives?” It just meant being more creative at killing enemies. It seems great in that aspect, the little I played seemed to have more in the way of puzzles and less in the way of gun play. Also lots of new areas. At any rate quite enjoyable so far.
vcatkiller,
The pistol from the original HL1 is one of the best sounding and feeling pistols in any game ever, and I gotta say this remake doesn’t dissapoint, I’ll have to goo back to the original to be sure, but it may actually have improved it.
I took the opportunity when seeing the countdown to play through half of Half-Life before the mod came out and there have been small differences but the small changes haven’t exactly been a bad thing. A remake of an old game you’d expect some changes but ive found that the mod is much more challenging than Half-Life because the enemies do more damage and I find less ammo. At one section I had about 20 shotgun shells and at the same point in HL1 I had nearly 100. The movement is also much better without feeling as floaty and quake-like as HL1.
So many issues, cannot get it working (took me 5 separate downloads to get one that would actually extract). Now it just sits on the loading splash screen; longer than source tends to, mind you.
Source is such a horribly outdated engine with it’s 10-20 second load times between levels for games with such low minimum requirements. Oh well :\.